I’ve been toying around with customizing the new AAE & AAP 2nd Edition (Global) maps into one that has a more accurate map projection along with an enlarged Europe and holding boxes for countries like UK and maybe Germany and Japan… Does anyone know of a clean political vector map from 1939 or maybe a year or two pre-war?  I’ve scoured the internets looking and just have not found anything suitable.

I’ve seen the digital copy of the new global maps out there but with all the textures on it it would be difficult to modify.  Has anyone done any map creating with Illustrator and or Photoshop?  Any advice?

Thanks

Madison

Thanks for all the replies.  I don’t recall details on the other countries.  I think it’s safe to say the players did their due diligence and annexed countries as soon as possible. e.g., Germany hitting Finland and Bulgaria turn 1 etc.  No one botched builds IMO.

Japan didn’t take out any islands until turn 4.  I need to clarify that.  When they moved on turn 4, most all the islands fell as did French Indo, Burma, Malaya and the Brit holding in China.  The only ships the Japanese player built the entire game were transports.  Not 1 other ship.  So the bulk of his builds were tanks/inf and air.  By turn 5 the Japanese and Anzac where fighting fleet vs fleet and both got mashed.  The Jap’s had 2-3 fleet groups and they were all down by Malaya and Borneo.

I’ll read the long posts later, I just wanted to mention that all the things you normally are supposed to do annexing and doing smart builds was more or less done IMO.  Again I apologize on lack of details for other countries, I sad idle a long time building and advising my son who played UK and Anzac but I tried not to pester them too much.

I also have done 5-6 games on TripleA.  Beat my oldest son last night by like turn 10-11… as allies.  He went for a Sea Lion and all out on UK… I lost Egypt but took it back.  Russia stayed strong with 50+ in Moscow and pushing back into China.  Calcutta fell but would have been retaken.  Japan lost all its island holdings, Korea, and its two factory builds in China fell to US/Anzac forces.

Perhaps there is… It’s hard to remember every countries turn and I’m generalizing a bit.  I just didn’t see any fatal errors and even the axis agreed that there was not botched play on our side, it just seems Russia gets crushed by Japan/Germany and its unavoidable as the US won’t enter the war until turn 4…

I will try to summarize here so as not to write novels.  I am going off of memory as well so it may be a bit inaccurate.

Turn 1:

Germany - hits UK Navy, takes France
Russia - pulls back from borders both east and west, buys infantry
Japan - DW on Russia, attacks north of Korea, China and moves navy away from USA to coast
USA - Flew Air from Philippines to Guam, grouped navy at Pearl, built mostly navy
UK - Attacked Italian Fleet, 1/2 successful. Pulled back to Cairo, attacked in East Africa. Build factory in Egypt, built up India with INF
Italy - Applies huge pressure on UK in Africa with remaining fleet (mostly intact) , does some Balkan attacks and southern France
Anzac - Build men and a boat, occupied Dutch New Guinea.

Turn 2:

Germany - Builds up for Russian invasion, does some Balkan stuff, not much else really.
Russia - Builds infantry, does nothing else
Japan - Continues to push on China and Russia, builds factory in China, Air and inf/tanks, and starts island attacking
USA - Builds more navy, gets air from Guam to Hawaii.  Also builds some infantry and transports
UK - Continues to fight Italians in Med, stacks up defenses in Egypt and clears off Italians in east Africa.
Italy - Reinforces units in Africa, attacks Yugo and takes it.
Anzac - Builds an air, saves the rest I think

Turn 3:

Germany - DW Russia, takes frontier, annexes Finland and builds big INF stacks.
Russia - Builds infantry, consolidates and waits in defense
Japan - Pounds China, pushes more into Russia taking Sakha and the territories east, keeps fleet near China and takes more islands
USA - DW on all Axis, moves stack to Gibraltar, mixed builds of ground and naval in preparation for fleet battle with Japan and landing troops in Africa or England
UK - Continues fight in Med, holding out in Egypt, as Italians are on both sides of Cairo.
Italy - Takes Trans Jordan and reinforces more into Alexandria, controls all Med waters.
Anzac - Builds a ship and saves rest takes another island if I recall

Turn 4:

Germany - Takes next layer of Russian territories, (Not Novgorod though)  Builds more for land war.
Russia - Builds more INF does not attack.
Japan - More gains against China, Burma road falls, gains in Russia and Mongolia as well, builds are in air, inf, tanks.
USA - Builds on both sides of USA, but leaning on Pacific still with Air/Carriers (By end of game I had 4 Carriers loaded with Air)
UK - Takes Trans Jordan back, counter attacks Burma road, taking it back.  Fleet in East Africa.  Builds more in Egypt and preps for Attack on Alexandria.  Navy ready at the Red Sea.  
Italy - Pretty much builds Infantry and air and waits for UK counter in Africa.
Anzac - Has nice fleet now and engages part of ��� fleet at New Guinea and takes it with heavy losses.

Turn 5:

Germany - Takes Novgorod, and builds more for Moscow assault, also Stalingrad falls.
Russia - Builds inf and consolidates… waiting.  About 40 Inf in Moscow now.
Japan - Pushes more into Russia linking with Germans at Kazahkstan, retakes Burma.
USA - Moves amphibious group from east coast to Gibraltar. Large fleet moves to Soviet east and lands at Far East.  Continues to spread builds out for Pac/Euro.  
UK - Finally clears out Italy from all of Africa with big attack on Alexandria.  By now though the Germans are in the Caucasus and threatening the Middle East.  India is starting to feel the pinch and builds INF.  ��� air is incredible and the Germans are getting close too.
Anzac - Starts 2nd fleet builds and doesn’t do much.  2 of its air are in Moscow by now.

Turn 6

Germany attacked adjacent to Moscow with size still had massive stacks just out of reach.
Russia - Counter attacked 1 stack wiping it, but down to about 35 inf in Moscow
Japan - Massed fleet near Malaya, upgraded factory in China to major and continued to build air/tanks/men.  Ignoring US fleet.
USA - Moves fleet to Japan, only has 4 Inf vs 10 Inf and 8 Air.  Decides to Park and blockade to goad Japan to attack me.  Continues to build split between Europe/Pacific.  Japan just ignores my fleet and continues to push inland to India and has all the islands now.  I realize I will have to chase the fleet to Indian ocean to destroy it, which will take 2-3 turns.  Meanwhile they just keep building ground/air and beef up Japan.  It’s too late to do much now, Russia is down to about 8 income, China is gone, Japs are next to India even though their fleet is 1/2 the US fleet in carriers and surface ships I’m about x2, but out of reach without much amphib capability in the Pacific
e decided it would take far too long for USA to be effective.  Allies hold Norway, all of Africa, just India and Australia and Hawaii.  All of Asia is conquered other than Moscow and Soviet Far East.  Japan income was in the the 70’s Germany in the 60’s UK 30 maybe and USA was around 60 I think.  Italy about 10.

Hello,
  This is my first post here as I am a relatively new owner of the AAE & AAP 2nd Editions, which I have been playing together in the global war 2nd edition games.  I come from a Europa/OCS/Operational level of gaming and have not had much interest in AA because it over abstracts and honestly I thought it to simplistic.

Yet here I am asking questions.  :-D

I have played maybe 5-6 games on both sides.  In all but one case the Axis have whipped the allies time and time again.  The pattern my group see’s happening is the gang up on Russia by Japan and Germany.  I’m not sure if this is something that is common in the new global 2nd edition or unique to our group.  I’d assess our group as decent players.  We played last night and I was America.  On turn 1 Japan DW’d Russia and immediately attacked. Long story short, Russia got mauled, we ended the game on like turn 6 or something conceding as the allies.  In short, I didn’t seem affective as the Americans to help.  By the time I declared war on collect income of turn 3, it was for the most part over for the soviets.

They held Moscow with about 40 infantry and 10 planes (allied included).  The Germans had pushed adjacent and were ready to start attacking the next turn.  The Japanese were close to Calcutta, had wiped China.  Italy was very contained but the Germans were so strong on the ground they were threatening the middle east.  England was fine and the American fleet was strong and sitting in the pacific.  Most all the big islands were under Japanese control and their navy was in tatters (they didn’t lose any carriers though).

Japan simply ignored the US fleet and stacked about 10 air and 10-15 infantry in Japan proper.  I could not muster enough to consider invading and by the time I brought enough to bear it would have been so telegraphed Japan could have easily built 10 infantry for 2 turns and a invasion of the island would have been impossible.

My first issue is, how to get the USA involved and significant early so to prevent Russia from folding up.  For the last 4 games Russia is fighting Japan and Germany and they lose.  This really seems unavoidable as everyone knows when the US comes in, and they play to that to the utmost advantage.

Any advice and or feedback on winning with the Allies?

Thanks

John